The Nautica NCT 800 is designed as a handsome dress watch and is powered by a Miyota Japanese quartz movement with tachymeter functionality and water resistance up to 100 metres — via Watchuseek Watch Blog
This is the cleanest Yamaha SR500 café racer I’ve seen for a long, long time—the Lossa Engineering Solus
. The builder is Jay LaRossa of Long Beach, California and he specializes in café racers based on Japanese, Italian and British bikes from the 1960s and 1970s — via Bike EXIF
The ABC is creating a new Triple J radio station dedicated entirely to playing unsigned and independent Australian music.
Triple J Unearthed started as a band competition in the 1990s, turned into a music sharing website and is now becoming a new ABC digital radio station.
Launched in Melbourne on Thursday night by the ABC’s managing director Mark Scott, Triple J Unearthed will begin broadcasting 24 hours a day from 5 October — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists working at the Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL), which is part of the City College of New York (CUNY), have discovered a new way of mapping spiralling light that could allow telecommunications operators the ability to harness untapped data channels
” within fibre optic broadband ISP cables — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Christopher Ward, a British company who have an expanding range of mechanical and quartz watches have released details of an interesting new model, the C11, an aviator/instrument styled watch which is in the vein of Bell and Ross’ BR-01.
Two models are going to be available. An automatic powered by either an ETA 2824-2 or Sellita SW200-1 and a Quartz chronograph — via WristWatchReview.com
Originally created for my Crooked Critters
show, Sol
had been on loan to Fly Bird store in Oak Park, IL. for a while but is now ready for the taking! This guy is ready to light up your life with the two plastic candlestick lights within it’s grasp. Love octopi? Have a nautical themed home? Interested in unique home lighting? Sol can certainly illuminate your home all year long… even during those long winter days when the sun never lasts as long as we’d like. This piece is fitted with a coded electrical cord. The maximum bulb wattage that can be used is 50w — via Etsy
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson’s chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company’s manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier,
he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle.
It isn’t the first time that agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service have come knocking at the storied maker of such iconic instruments as the Les Paul electric guitar, the J-160E acoustic-electric John Lennon played, and essential jazz-boxes such as Charlie Christian’s ES-150. In 2009 the Feds seized several guitars and pallets of wood from a Gibson factory, and both sides have been wrangling over the goods in a case with the delightful name United States of America v Ebony Wood in Various Forms
A huge underground river appears to be flowing thousands of feet beneath the Amazon river, Brazilian scientists said Thursday.
Valiya Hamza of Brazil’s National Observatory said researchers found indications the subterranean river is 3,700 mileslong, about the same length as the Amazon on the surface — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Seiko 5 Sports SNZF45 looks very similar the more-familiar Seiko Monster models (the SKX781 and SKX779). The main differences from the afore-mentioned Monster models seem to be; water resistance is only rated at 100m, versus 200m; the crown does not screw down; the watch face is in white, rather than orange or black; uses the 7S36B automatic movement, rather than the 7S26. A quick search on the web reveals that the watch should be priced around $150, which brings it an even more-affordable price range than the Monster models were already in — via WristWatchReview.com
A federal judge in California has dismissed a pair of cases that were filed last year against Microsoft and Yahoo by a bulk emailing firm that argued the companies violated antitrust laws when their spam filters blocked its emails.
Microsoft’s SmartScreen spam filter technology started to block messages from the company, Holomaxx, after the Redmond company found their contents to be harassing
and otherwise objectionable
, according to court papers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
He described himself as a risk-taking rabbi who had been beaten up, thrown in jail and gone $US175,000 into debt
on expeditions
to Eastern Europe and Russia.
He said his mission was to rescue and restore Torahs that had been wrenched from their communities during the Holocaust” and place them with congregations that would look after them.
I guess you could call me the Jewish Indiana Jones,
he wrote in 2004.
But on Wednesday, the rabbi, Menachem Youlus, was arrested in Manhattan on fraud charges. Court papers said he had never gone to the far-flung places he talked about and had made up the stories he told about discovering Torahs at the sites of the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps — or in Iraq in 2007 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Austrian police are investigating claims that a man locked up his two mentally ill daughters in a small room in their home and sexually abused them for 41 years.
Officers said the 80-year-old repeatedly raped the women between 1970 and May 2011 in St Peter am Hart, near the Bavarian border. The alleged victims are now aged 53 and 45. A police official did not name either the suspect or the alleged victims.
Police confirmed they were investigating after a report in the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten newspaper — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Channel Nine’s director of news in Brisbane has resigned and three journalists have been sacked for faking reports about the search for Daniel Morcombe’s remains — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists have discovered a planet they believe is made of diamond.
The international team, which includes Australian scientists, believes the diamond planet
is the only thing left from what was a huge star in our own Milky Way galaxy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
And there’s a tutorial as well — via Dabbled
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